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How is the state of this on the new release? Is VPU now possible on mainline?
I had tried images from balbes150 for the station P1 where I could install his Kodi packages for this. I was wondering if this now is possible on the latest release or not? And what packages need to be used for this?
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And here the video I made about the new release.
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There is a small problem with Cinnamon. The menu (start) button is missing. Must be some package that's missing. I'll try to investigate. But I don't know much about cinnamon.
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@TRS-80Of course you can ping me.
@fikThat is indeed the best way to work. Either freeze kernel, or use 5.10
Been a while that I tested it, but I also remember edge being unusable. There is a problem with all meson64 boards and edge. Someone is working on it. But no idea when it will be fixed. Too much work for too little hands.
VIM3 development is also still in early fase. More things will not work. Check the cpu frequency. Possible it's set to 1.5Ghz on all cores. This because the configuration of the Odroid C2 was used as a base for the VIM3.
I think you can set it with "sudo nano /etc/default/cpufrequtils"
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6 hours ago, balbes150 said:
You are violating the startup order, this is a test version and it does not contain startup scripts from the desktop. It needs to be run as an independent software. After booting the system, DO NOT log in to the desktop. Switch to any console (Ctrl+Alt+F1). We log in as a user (but it's better to use root, then there will be more control options) and launch kodi.
Thank you. That does work well.
I should have know to start it like that. But clearly my brain doesn't always work the way I'd like it to. -
8 minutes ago, balbes150 said:
what device are you trying on ?
On the Station P1.
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@balbes150I'm unable to make it work.
I downloaded the Armbian_21.11.0-trunk_Station-p1_bullseye_current_5.10.88_xfce_desktop
Downloaded the deb files. https://users.armbian.com/jmcc/packages/kodi-mainline/arm64/
First tried with only the kodi-mainline-bin and kodi-mainline files
sudo apt install libcec6 libfmt7 libfstrcmp0 libgles2 liblirc-client0 libmariadb3 libtinyxml2.6.2v5 libmicrohttpd12 libpcrecpp0v5 libpython2.7 sudo dpkg -i kodi-mainline-bin_18.9-final-18.9bullseye0armbian1_arm64.deb sudo apt install libaacs0 libboost-python1.74.0 libshairplay0 libxxf86dga1 python3-bluez python3-gattlib python3-simplejson x11-utils sudo dpkg -i kodi-mainline_18.9-final-18.9bullseye0armbian1_all.deb
When I try to start Kodi it kind of crashes the desktop. Mouse and keyboard stop working. Can't do anything. It does stay on the desktop, and the desktop is still running. I tried with a terminal window with htop running and htop was still running. But I was unable to do anything. Also couldn't switch with ctrl-alt-Fx
This is the same with either sudo kodi or without.
I then also tried with installing all the deb kodi files. But no change here.
I tried again with a fresh install and the same.
Did I download the wrong image? It is an older image, but the most recent 5.10 bullseye as you said.
Some other things. It takes a long time before it starts booting. About a minute after power on you see the first things on screen. And the led isn't on. It blinks one time when boot initiates. But then it stays off.
I think I remember this was working in the past.
I also notices the black spots in windows that other people talk about. Seems a graphical glitch, composer or GPU. I don't have that on my M4 with 5.14(old image).
And Firefox also crashed out of the blue. Just to let you know. Cheers. -
5 minutes ago, Werner said:
I bet you can try one of these: https://users.armbian.com/balbes150/station-p1/
I'll try it tonight. I've got the P1 gathering dust. So a good moment to use it again.
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27 minutes ago, balbes150 said:
You are behind the current state of rk3399 support.
I'm indeed behind.
How do I enable this? Is there a package for it? Do I need to use Buster/Hirsute?
Sorry, I'm reading thru the page you shared but didn't find the info.
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23 minutes ago, villalvilla said:
My question is: Is there any possibility of using an stable version of wayland for this purposes? If not, which could be the best choice for us to have an stable desktop, with chromium and all other stuff? Would it be possible in the near future to have GPU accelerated videos throuth v4l2 decent drivers?
I don't have the RockPi4 anymore. I do have the NanoPi M4 and I run 5.14.11 on it without any problems. This only comes with GPU drivers, and not VPU drivers. Indeed for VPU you need to use Buster 4.4 with the media framework.
That also has some GPU acceleration, but not panfrost.
I've used it for a very long time. But with the old Media script on Armbian Bionic 4.4I only watch 1080p video files and youtube at 1080p. And this works well enough now on mainline. Only thing mainline can't do is 4K video.
The M4 used to be my main desktop. For that I would still use 4.4. Now it's my 2nd desktop. My first desktop does 4K, so no need for it anymore on my RK3399.
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Hi all.
In this video I test the KDE Plasma desktop on Armbian Jammy.It ain't perfect. It needs some fixes to be workable. I show what to do to install and fix.
Here's the video. Greetings. -
Hi all.
In my latest video I test an Armbian image for X86/AMD64.
I try it on the Rock Pi X.
This also works on any other x86 pc.
This is just a preview of what is possible. It is not an official release in any way.
Armbian is only supported on ARM single board computer.
But hell it is nice to use it on this too.
Big thanks to all the Armbian developers.
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Hi all.
I've just made a review video about the RPi400.
I tested RPiOS, Manjaro and Armbian.
All my gathered info under the video.Benchmarks
Board | SBC-Bench | Distro | Clockspeeds | 7z all cores | 7z small core | 7z big core | CPU-Miner | NicoD-Blender | Max temp | C copy backwards NanoPi M4 2GB http://ix.io/3xnJ Armbian Hirsute xfce4 5.13.12 1.4Ghz/1.8Ghz 7760 1267 1857 10.05 14m41s 78C *** 1782.9 MB/s NanoPi M4 2GB http://ix.io/3xv3 Armbian Hirsute xfce4 5.13.12 1.5Ghz/2Ghz 8288 1348 2070 10.95 13m21s *** 1806.7 MB/s NanoPi M4 2GB http://ix.io/3xs3 Armbian Hirsute cinnamon 5.13.12 1.4Ghz/1.8Ghz 7766 1267 1851 10 14m33s 78C 1742.6 MB/s NanoPi M4 2GB http://ix.io/3xt0 Armbian Hirsute budgie 5.13.12 1.4Ghz/1.8Ghz 7941 1272 1863 10.05 14m24s/14m18s 78C 1738.3 MB/s NanoPi M4 2GB http://ix.io/3xtR Armbian Buster xfce4 4.4.213 1.5Ghz/2Ghz 8383 1359 1982 10.8 14m17s 1377.3 MB/s NanoPi M4 2GB http://ix.io/3xuf Armbian Buster xfce4 4.4.213 1.4Ghz/1.8Ghz 7879 1278 1807 10 15m20s 1392.3 MB/s NanoPi M4 2GB http://ix.io/3xux Armbian Focal xfce4 5.10.60 1.4Ghz/1.8Ghz 8028 1286 1859 10.27 13m29s *** 1765.3 MB/s NanoPi M4 2GB http://ix.io/3xuL Armbian Focal xfce4 5.10.60 1.5Ghz/2Ghz 8427 1351 2076 11.2 12m53s *** 1759.9 MB/s NanoPi M4 2GB http://ix.io/3EDB Ubuntu Xenial armhf 4.4 xfce4 1.4Ghz/1.8Ghz 7069 1140 1695 1387.1 MB/s Board | SBC-Bench | Distro | Clockspeeds | 7z all cores | 7z small core | 7z big core | CPU-Miner | NicoD-Blender | Max temp Odroid C4/HC4 http://ix.io/2LaP Ubuntu Mate 4.9 1.91Ghz 7000 1769 7.2 kH/s 2087.5 MB/s Odroid C4/HC4 http://ix.io/3F6z Armbian Buster 5.9 2.10Ghz 7971 2030 7.9 23m02s 2020.0 MB/s Khadas VIM3 Armbian Hirsute cinnamon 5.13.12 12m55s Board | SBC-Bench | Distro | Clockspeeds | 7z all cores | 7z small core | 7z big core | CPU-Miner | NicoD-Blender | Max temp Raspberry Pi4 http://ix.io/3F6o Armbian Jammy 5.13 2Ghz 8047 2070 Didn't work Blender doens't work 2054.3 MB/s Raspberry Pi4 http://ix.io/3F6K Armbian Jammy 5.13 1.5Ghz 6239 1572 2556.8 MB/s Raspberry Pi4 Armbian Hirsute edge xfce4 5.11 1.5Ghz 5832 1534 18m11s 60C Raspberry Pi4 http://ix.io/3Euw Armbian Hirsute edge xfce4 5.11 2Ghz 7747 2037 9.8 14m26s 68C 2382.2 MB/s Raspberry Pi4 http://ix.io/3FbW Armbian Hirsute 5.11 OC GPU+CPU 2.1Ghz 8168 2147 Blender crash 2445.0 MB/s Raspberry Pi4 http://ix.io/3EU7 Armbian Impish edge headless 5.13 1.5Ghz 6251 1584 15m39s 2618.0 MB/s Raspberry Pi4 http://ix.io/3Ewi Armbian Impish edge headless 5.13 2Ghz 8171 2093 12m41s 2713.7 MB/s Raspberry Pi4 http://ix.io/3EPQ Armbian Bullseye edge headless 5.13 1.5Ghz 6328 1594 7.3 Blender doesn't work 2680.5 MB/s Raspberry Pi4 http://ix.io/3EK9 Armbian Bullseye edge headless 5.13 2Ghz 8242 2096 9.7 Blender doesn't work 2505.4 MB/s Raspberry Pi4 http://ix.io/3ECd Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye 32-bit 1.5Ghz 7577 1933 21m09s 2511.7 MB/s Raspberry Pi4 http://ix.io/3ECt Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye 32-bit 2Ghz 9746 2533 17m05s 2263.0 MB/s Raspberry Pi4 http://ix.io/3EIe Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye 64-bit 1.5Ghz 6174 1567 7.2 17m01s 2463.5 MB/s Raspberry Pi4 http://ix.io/3EJs Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye 64-bit 2Ghz 8026 2053 9.65 Blender unstable at 2Ghz 2326.1 MB/s Raspberry Pi4 http://ix.io/3EGZ Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish) 5.13 arm64 1.5Ghz 6160 1563 16m50s 2421.2 MB/s Raspberry Pi4 http://ix.io/3EHA Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish) 5.13 arm64 2Ghz 7965 2038 Didn't work Blender unstable at 2Ghz 2501.9 MB/s Board | SBC-Bench | Distro | Clockspeeds | 7z all cores | 7z small core | 7z big core | CPU-Miner | NicoD-Blender | Max temp RPi400 http://ix.io/3HLw Armbian Jammy Edge 5.15.7 cinnamon 2Ghz o.v. 6 7913 2085 19m34s 69C 2224.5 MB/s RPi400 http://ix.io/3HSI Armbian Impish current 5.13.0 cin 2Ghz o.v. 6 7869 2104 14m20s 63C 2443.5 MB/s RPi400 http://ix.io/3HTx Armbian Impish current 5.13.0 cin 2.1Ghz + 700GPU o.v.6 6930 2069 13m27s 65C 1500.0 MB/s RPi400 http://ix.io/3HTR Armbian Impish current 5.13.0 cin 2.1Ghz o.v.6 8188 2205 14m03s 65C 2450.4 MB/s RPi400 http://ix.io/3HMm RPiOS bullseye armhf 5.10.63 1.8Ghz 8705 2350 18m46s 55C 2390.5 MB/s RPi400 http://ix.io/3HRl RPiOS bullseye armhf 5.10.63 2Ghz o.v. 4 9834 2601 17m07s 61C 2455.0 MB/s RPi400 Manjaro KDE 5.10 1.8Ghz 7426 1886 14m28s 58C RPi400 http://ix.io/3IgG Manjaro KDE 5.10 2Ghz 8156 2092 13m16s 65C 2473.3 MB/s Board | SBC-Bench | Distro | Clockspeeds | 7z all cores | 7z small core | 7z big core | CPU-Miner | NicoD-Blender | Max temp Odroid N2+ http://ix.io/3EwQ Armbian Impish xfce4 5.14 2Ghz/2.4Ghz 11714 1765 2517 8m51s 2053.0 MB/s
Additional infoPower consumption ----------------- No wifi/on-board sd-card reader idle 0.45A Wifi-on-board sd-card reader idle 2Ghz ov 6 0.5A Wifi-on-board sd-card reader maxed out 2Ghz ov 6 1.3A Wifi-USB3SD idle 2Ghz ov 6 0.75A-0.9A Wifi-USB3SD idle 1.8Ghz 0.75A-0.9A Wifi-on-board sd-card reader idle 1.8Ghz 0.5A Wifi-on-board sd-card reader maxed out 1.8Ghz 1.1A Wifi-USB3SD maxed out 1.8Ghz 1.3A Official Armbian Jammy Nightly 5.15 has no GPU acceleration Images from RPardini do have GPU acceleration, but no sound Manjaro KDE is nice. Works well, except video playback in browser. Max 720p. ++ Good cooling solution, doesn't overheat even at high overclocks ++ the Pi 400 is the first in the line of Raspberry Pi products to have an on/off power button This is done by pressing Fn+F10. To restore power, you press the pair of buttons for two seconds ++ Default clock of 1.8Ghz vs 1.5Ghz on RPi4 performs 20% better. OC to 2Ghz 30% more performance than 1.5Ghz -- Bad keyboard -- Bad arrangement of the cursor keys -- SD-card reader still rather slow with max 45MB/s. Better to use a sd->USB3 adapter for fast sd-cards -- Still the undervoltage problem as with all other RPi devices when using a normal PSU. PSU's that deliver 5.3V perform best. *** GPU overclock makes it perform worse *** SD-card slot isn't very fast 45MB/s vs 90MB/s with the same card in sd->USB3 adapter
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17 hours ago, rna said:
Have a Nice Day!
Nice job. I had a lot of problems getting it to work on Hirsute. So I never looked into it to make it work on other releases.
If you'd be willing to adjust the armbian-gaming script to do this, I'll accept any commit. https://github.com/NicoD-SBC/armbian-gaming
I also was planning to add installation of PPSSPP. But never came to it. If you want to do that...
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7 hours ago, izzo said:
What files need to be changed with what text?
My guess would be to look in /boot folder. There should be boot.ini
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Hi all.
You might have already heard. Armbian is aiming to support the Raspberry Pi4. @rpardini already made well working images for it.
In this video I talk about why we would want Armbian for the RPi4, and I show you around in Armbian Jammy 5.13 for the RPi4.
We do need to find someone who wants to take the task on him/her to be maintainer for RaspberryPi4 at Armbian.
For this you need one spare board that can be used for testing when new release are made.
Here some info I gathered.
Raspberry Pi 4 cooled with big heatsink on SoC and fan on-top Board | SBC-Bench | Distro | Clockspeeds | 7z all cores | 7z small core | 7z big core | CPU-Miner | NicoD-Blender | Max temp | C copy backwards NanoPi M4 2GB http://ix.io/3xnJ Armbian Hirsute xfce4 5.13.12 1.4Ghz/1.8Ghz 7760 1267 1857 10.05 14m41s 78C *** 1782.9 MB/s NanoPi M4 2GB http://ix.io/3xv3 Armbian Hirsute xfce4 5.13.12 1.5Ghz/2Ghz 8288 1348 2070 10.95 13m21s *** 1806.7 MB/s NanoPi M4 2GB http://ix.io/3xs3 Armbian Hirsute cinnamon 5.13.12 1.4Ghz/1.8Ghz 7766 1267 1851 10 14m33s 78C 1742.6 MB/s NanoPi M4 2GB http://ix.io/3xt0 Armbian Hirsute budgie 5.13.12 1.4Ghz/1.8Ghz 7941 1272 1863 10.05 14m24s/14m18s 78C 1738.3 MB/s NanoPi M4 2GB http://ix.io/3xtR Armbian Buster xfce4 4.4.213 1.5Ghz/2Ghz 8383 1359 1982 10.8 14m17s 1377.3 MB/s NanoPi M4 2GB http://ix.io/3xuf Armbian Buster xfce4 4.4.213 1.4Ghz/1.8Ghz 7879 1278 1807 10 15m20s 1392.3 MB/s NanoPi M4 2GB http://ix.io/3xux Armbian Focal xfce4 5.10.60 1.4Ghz/1.8Ghz 8028 1286 1859 10.27 13m29s *** 1765.3 MB/s NanoPi M4 2GB http://ix.io/3xuL Armbian Focal xfce4 5.10.60 1.5Ghz/2Ghz 8427 1351 2076 11.2 12m53s *** 1759.9 MB/s NanoPi M4 2GB http://ix.io/3EDB Ubuntu Xenial armhf 4.4 xfce4 1.4Ghz/1.8Ghz 7069 1140 1695 1387.1 MB/s Board | SBC-Bench | Distro | Clockspeeds | 7z all cores | 7z small core | 7z big core | CPU-Miner | NicoD-Blender | Max temp Odroid C4/HC4 http://ix.io/2LaP Ubuntu Mate 4.9 1.91Ghz 7000 1769 7.2 kH/s 2087.5 MB/s Odroid C4/HC4 http://ix.io/3F6z Armbian Buster 5.9 2.10Ghz 7971 2030 7.9 23m02s 2020.0 MB/s Khadas VIM3 Armbian Hirsute cinnamon 5.13.12 12m55s Raspberry Pi4 http://ix.io/3F6o Armbian Jammy 5.13 2Ghz 8047 2070 Didn't work Blender doens't work 2054.3 MB/s Raspberry Pi4 http://ix.io/3F6K Armbian Jammy 5.13 1.5Ghz 6239 1572 2556.8 MB/s Raspberry Pi4 Armbian Hirsute edge xfce4 5.11 1.5Ghz 5832 1534 18m11s 60C Raspberry Pi4 http://ix.io/3Euw Armbian Hirsute edge xfce4 5.11 2Ghz 7747 2037 9.8 14m26s 68C 2382.2 MB/s Raspberry Pi4 http://ix.io/3FbW Armbian Hirsute 5.11 OC GPU+CPU 2.1Ghz 8168 2147 Blender crash 2445.0 MB/s Raspberry Pi4 http://ix.io/3EU7 Armbian Impish edge headless 5.13 1.5Ghz 6251 1584 15m39s 2618.0 MB/s Raspberry Pi4 http://ix.io/3Ewi Armbian Impish edge headless 5.13 2Ghz 8171 2093 12m41s 2713.7 MB/s Raspberry Pi4 http://ix.io/3EPQ Armbian Bullseye edge headless 5.13 1.5Ghz 6328 1594 7.3 Blender doesn't work 2680.5 MB/s Raspberry Pi4 http://ix.io/3EK9 Armbian Bullseye edge headless 5.13 2Ghz 8242 2096 9.7 Blender doesn't work 2505.4 MB/s Raspberry Pi4 http://ix.io/3ECd Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye 32-bit 1.5Ghz 7577 1933 21m09s 2511.7 MB/s Raspberry Pi4 http://ix.io/3ECt Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye 32-bit 2Ghz 9746 2533 17m05s 2263.0 MB/s Raspberry Pi4 http://ix.io/3EIe Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye 64-bit 1.5Ghz 6174 1567 7.2 17m01s 2463.5 MB/s Raspberry Pi4 http://ix.io/3EJs Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye 64-bit 2Ghz 8026 2053 9.65 Blender unstable at 2Ghz 2326.1 MB/s Raspberry Pi4 http://ix.io/3EGZ Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish) 5.13 arm64 1.5Ghz 6160 1563 16m50s 2421.2 MB/s Raspberry Pi4 http://ix.io/3EHA Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish) 5.13 arm64 2Ghz 7965 2038 Didn't work Blender unstable at 2Ghz 2501.9 MB/s Odroid N2+ http://ix.io/3EwQ Armbian Impish xfce4 5.14 2Ghz/2.4Ghz 11714 1765 2517 8m51s 2053.0 MB/s Raspberry Pi4 SD->USB3 with SandDisk Extreme 89.7 MB/s read SD with on-board sd-card reader Sandisk Extreme 45.4 MB/s read (rather slow compared to 70MB/s for M4) RPi4 fastest memory, then N2+, then M4(lpddr3) Armbian Impish 2.93.5 Raspberry Pi OS Bulsseye 32-bit/64-bit blender 2.83.5 Ubuntu 21.10 Blender 2.93.3 Armbian Jammy Blender goesn't work / bug *** Ubuntu 21.10 unstable when installing ubuntu-mate-desktop, Unity very slow Armbian on RPi4 pro's + Having the same platform for RPi and other Armbian supported boards + Reliability/ stable + ARM64 vs armhf of RaspberryPiOS/Ubuntu unstable at high clocks and a lot of bugs and hangs + Ubuntu and Debian images and all their versions + Great for server tasks + Customizable + You can build your own RPi4 images with whatever modules you need Armbian on RPi4 con's - Not great for desktop use (yet) - No VPU drivers, video playback firefox ok up to 720p - Audio glitchy, no audio on some images like Jammy *** For audio install pavucontrol *** On-board wifi and dongles don't work with the Armbian Impish and Bullseye images. Dongles work on Hirsute. I guess kernel issue 5.13 -> 5.11 *** Armbian Bullseye 5.13 USB not always working Install desktops sudo apt install xfce4 (ubuntu-mate-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-desktop, ...) sudo apt install lightdm sudo apt install lightdm-gtk-greeter sudo apt install pavucontrol sudo apt install xinit Power draw at 5.3V headless 1.5Ghz with fan maxed out 0.95A 2Ghz with fan maxed out 1.10A To do - M4 Impish - Gather the info I've got from other boards and my pc's
And for those who don't like watching a video, here a short text of what I talk about.
What is Armbian? What is the Armbian build framework which is one of the valued pro's compared to RPiOS? Why Armbian for RPi4? For software compatibillity with other Armbian supported SBCs, Reliabillity, ARM64, Ubuntu and Debian and their versions, great for server tasks... Accentuate this is only a preview, not full release or supported Show Armbian download page Show the NanoPi M4 and Odroid N2+, talk about their specs(short) Difference between other SBCs and RPi/ThreadX - Under Voltage problems/eMMC and NVMe possible on others(better I/O) What doesn't work yet on Armbian for RPi4. Wifi, BT and HDMI sound Show Armbian Impish, show htop, install desktops, Benchmarks between different OS's. Explain they aren't worth much since, different versions of software, different architecture armhf vs arm64, 7zip multicore doesn't play well on different sized clusters, and doesn't always give exact the same result... !!!Test the performance of the software you use to know if this is the correct tool for you!!! Show different desktop environments installed on Armbian - Not the Armbian default desktops - mate doesn't work great, xfce4 works ok, kde works but is slow(newer version should improve that soon)Change openGL2->OpenGL3, ... Performance of I/O. Better to use a good but cheap usb3 sd-card reader than on-board sd-card reader. ssd/NVMe->USB3 even better. ???Would you like to become RPi4 Armbian maintainer??? Or for another board??? Conclusion. Good for RPi community to have even more choice. Good for Armbian community to be able to use the same software on their RPi devices as on their others. Good for Armbian to reach more people and have more awareness about other boards. Having a good build environment to build your own images/kernels/patches for the RPi4.
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13 hours ago, intheundertow said:
any ideas?
Have you tried with armbian-gaming?
https://github.com/NicoD-SBC/armbian-gaming
It is made for Armbian Hirsute. You can watch the source to see what fixes I used to make it work.
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That is not how a kernel upgrade works.
The kernel 5.10 is a supported LTS kernel. Kernel 5.13 is experimental and unsupported.
It might be possible to switch kernel with armbian-config->other
This might lead to to problems, so it is not adviced to do so.
Things just brake when you want to use the latest bleeding egde software. -
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Hi all.
After making a video about the gear Igor uses, I now made a video about the gear I use.
Here the video.Is there anything special you are using? What do you use your SBCs for?
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47 minutes ago, g00d said:
I'm really curious if you red my question at all
Yes I did.
6 hours ago, g00d said:This device has no display output and I have no clue if and how it's possible to debug the boot issue.
With ssh, or serial connection.
6 hours ago, g00d said:The boot is done through the micro-SD card and I can mount the micro-SD card successfully on any other host for insight. Is there any known trick how to see what fails during the boot process? How can I do this?
By using ssh and connecting to it, or use a serial cable.
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You need to use ssh to login to it, and then configure everything like that.
This video shows how to install headless(without hdmi).
I'm not sure, but I think OMV can do full disk encryption easily. For that you need a Debian (buster, bullseye) image and OMV can be installed with armbian-config.
Here how to install OMV. Search google for full disk encryption on OMV.

Video : Testing the new 22.02 images on M4/V2 / RK3399
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Hi all.
In my latest video I test the new Armbian 22.02 images on RK3399.
I use the NanoPi M4. But it should be about the same for other RK3399 devices.
Long story short.
Jammy xfce 5.16 performs better. And has the better performing browser.
Focal xfce 5.15 firefox is not HW-acc. Chromium is, but performs badly. Also bad blender result. Not all cores are used to the max. I've never seen this behaviour.
So I would use the Jammy xfce 5.16 image. But I'm still using an older image that work. So I'm not upgrading.
Greetings, NicoD